Paradise in White and Blue

EAST HAMPTON—For such a buttoned-up, seemingly conservative area, where neighbors complain any time you turn the radio up, the Hamptons sure has its share of kooky parties.

In a few weekends, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center will host its annual benefit. This year's is titled Voluptuous Panic and the poster art promoting it features a gentleman spouting blood into a lady's face. Blood is trickling out of the lady's mouth, too. It...